Are more black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying with Covid-19 than might be expected?

Are more black, Asian and minority ethnic people dying with Covid-19 than might be expected? Amid worrying recent media reports that a disproportionate number of BAME people are dying from Covid-19, Theo Georghiou and John Appleby take a look at how the demographics of the areas worst hit by the coronavirus can affect attempts to assess the extent of the problem. Nuffield Trust

See also:

• Dire warnings from care home sector borne out in the latest data The Health Foundation
• Understanding the data about COVID-19 related deaths The Health Foundation
• Nuffield Trust response to ONS weekly mortality stats Nuffield Trust
• Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 17 April 2020 Office for National Statistics